Advanced inorganic materials for different application areas
Investigator: Dr.-Ing. Jasmin Hum (Post Doc)
Cauerstraße 6
91058 Erlangen
Raum 0.212
Tel.: 09131 85-28618
email: jasmin.hum@fau.de
Kollaborator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. Boccaccini
The current activities reside in two main research areas; namely bioactive glasses for bone tissue engineering (BTE) and glass-ceramics for sustainable materials. In the field of BTE, scaffolds based on a variety of silicate bioactive glasses are being developed and characterized. Mainly the foam replica technique [1] is used to fabricate highly porous scaffolds and the novel scaffolds are functionalized by incorporating surface coatings to improve their physical and biological properties.
The second research area is within the framework of the European project (funded by Horizon 2020): “Turning waste from steel industry into valuable low cost feedstock for energy intensive industry” (REslag) , and is focused on the development of novel glass-ceramics from waste waste from steel industry for industrial applications.
[1] Chen QZ, Thompson ID, Boccaccini AR. 45S5 Bioglass®-derived glass-ceramic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, Biomaterials 2006;27:2414–25.
[2] Hum, J. and Boccaccini, A. R., Bioactive glasses as carriers for bioactive molecules and therapeutic drugs: a review, J. Mater. Sci. Mater. Med. 23 (2012) 2317-2333.
